If 40 years of faulty building gets blown down, don’t rebuild with the rubble
When a typhoon devastates a land, it takes a while to understand the scale of the destruction. Disaster relief kicks in, communications rebuilt, and news flows out. Salt Typhoon is no different.
We know how deeply rotten things are because Salt Typhoon used the same techniques used in a break-in into another national telco 40 years ago, when the UK's British Telecom'stext message service was attacked. The Prestel mailbox of the husband of the late Queen, Prince Philip, was famously accessed during the attack. And as in the case of Prestel, Salt Typhoon scooped up unguarded accounts with huge privileges.
A war plan needs intelligence, logistics, tactics, strategy and a clear final goal. How many of these are in place when we look at cyber security - we being the nations who belong to their people, rather than vice versa. Assuredly, the bad guys have the set. We don’t know the extent of infiltration or all the potential on-ramps, we have no strategy for an infrastructure that isn’t open to 40-year-old attack ideas, and we have no vision of what a properly secured infrastructure would look like.
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